Well, I never said the ideas don’t have their flaws. Back to the drawing board.

The reason I came up with the idea was because I was asked what I want for my birthday. My doctor duping range would be great for the older man seeking a vice without recriminations.

Until I get the Dragons’ Den team to back me, looks like it’s slippers again this year.

What I won’t be asking for is the Exfoliating Foot Mask.

A work colleague revealed that she’d tried this odd product. Essentially, it’s like an exfoliating face mask, except you wear it on your feet. After it’s washed off, within a few days a layer of skin falls off your feet. A bit like a snake shedding its skin.

It got me thinking. 1) Stick the word beauty in front of anything and you can flog it. And 2) That shredded skin could be reused.

My currents slippers are a size 10, because my wife said they didn’t have nines.

If I buy her the Foot Mask and then wear her discarded foot skin like a sock, maybe my old slippers will fit? Make that my one for the decade...